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Ethereum Game Axie Infinity Rewards Early Players With $60M AXS Airdrop

Axie Infinity has quickly become the biggest player in the burgeoning crypto gaming space. The Ethereum-based monster battling game exploded in popularity this summer, and now the [...]

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30 September 2021 16:30

Canada Gets Its First Multi-Crypto ETF Pegged to Both Bitcoin and Ethereum

Canadian exchange-traded funds (ETF) provider Evolve Funds Group has launched the country’s first multi-crypto ETF on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Evolve Cryptocurrencies ETF. Trading under the [...]

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30 September 2021 16:14

Binance Hires IRS Agent Who Helped Crack Silk Road Case

Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Wednesday that it has hired a pair of IRS sleuths to help it improve compliance. The hires are part [...]

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30 September 2021 14:01

Billionaire Investor Chamath Palihapitiya: ‘Bitcoin Has Effectively Replaced Gold’

Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya, chairman of spaceflight company Virgin Galactic and owner of NBA team the Golden State Warriors, has argued that Bitcoin has “effectively replaced gold.” [...]

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30 September 2021 13:37

Gelato Network Raises $11M to Automate ‘Dumb Contracts’ on DeFi

DeFi automation protocol Gelato Network has raised $11 million in Series A funding.  Founded in Berlin in 2019, Gelato is a protocol that automates tasks on decentralized [...]

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30 September 2021 13:01

Dogecoin Co-Creator: Ethereum Bridge and NFT Purchases Would ‘Help Dogecoin’

Dogecoin co-founder Billy Markus has said that Dogecoin (DOGE) needs an Ethereum bridge and inclusion by NFT marketplaces as a payment option in order to boost adoption [...]

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30 September 2021 11:12

Visa Unveils ‘Layer 2’ Network for Stablecoins, Central Bank Currencies

Credit card giant Visa has bet big on crypto in the last two years, forging relationships with blockchain companies and even buying a CryptoPunk NFT on Ethereum. [...]

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30 September 2021 11:01

Kraken Reveals Vulnerabilities in ‘Commonly Used’ Bitcoin ATMs

Kraken’s Security Labs, the cybersecurity arm of crypto exchange Kraken, has identified several vulnerabilities in the commonly used General Bytes BATMtwo Bitcoin ATM.  “Our team found that [...]

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30 September 2021 09:48

Why China’s Latest ‘Bitcoin Ban’ Is Bullish for DeFi

Last week, China “banned Bitcoin” yet again, or that’s how a large chunk of mainstream news outlets reported it. More accurately, as Decrypt wrote, the Chinese government reiterated [...]

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30 September 2021 00:08

Why Anett Rolikova of Ethereum Magicians Doesn’t Like EIP-1559

EIP-1559, the August Ethereum protocol change to “burn” transaction fees and thereby goose ETH’s value, feels like ancient history by now. But one of the top voices [...]

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29 September 2021 21:35

Bitcoin DeFi? It’s a Thing, Says Stacks Founder Muneeb Ali

For years, the defining Bitcoin vs Ethereum narrative in crypto has been that Bitcoin is just an investment at this point (“digital gold”), and all its blockchain [...]

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29 September 2021 21:01

PayPal, Google Execs to Help Bank of England ‘Understand’ Digital Currency

The Bank of England today announced members of two forums that will explore a potential central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the UK. The forum members include [...]

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29 September 2021 19:36

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